Pinus sylvestris

  • Specimen trees
  • 4 x tr., extra wide spacing
  • wire rootballed
  • width 100 – 150 cm
  • girth 25 – 30 cm
SKU: PSY10025 Category:
 

Description

General information

Pinus sylvestris

Scots pine


Distribution

Europe to East Asia. P. sylvestris has the largest area of distribution of all our native trees. From the lowlands to the Alps to an altitude of 1600 m. Only colonises sites not favoured by deciduous trees: dunes, moors, rocks and scree.

Habit

Tall tree, when young open and conical, in maturity often with a one-sided, broadly umbrella-shaped crown and generally with a straight, long stem.

Size

Height 10m-30m (40m), Spread 7m-10m (15m)

Bark

Bark in the upper crown and stem is a splendid russet red, flaking in thin sheets: a characteristic of P. sylvestris. Old stems have brown-red to black, furrowed, scaly bark.

Needles

Evergreen, in pairs, generally slightly twisted, 4 to 7 cm long, blue-green or grey-green.

Cones

Cones are ovate-conical, 2.5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, grey-brown.

Roots

On clay soils with a high ground-water table, or on peaty or stony soils, with a shallow root-system; otherwise a tap root is grown.

Site

Sun (withstands some shade on favorable soils).

Soil

Very undemanding as to site and water supply: grows on the poorest sandy soils and colonizes even acid highland moors. Fails on humus-free, open white sands (EHLERS). Otherwise on all dry to wet, acid to alkaline soils. Best on deep, moist, acid soils.

Characteristics

Extremely frost tolerant, withstands early and late frost, heat and drought, wind and urban site conditions. Intolerant of road salts and atmospheric pollution, may reach the age of 500 years, important provider of resin, needle litter is nutrient-poor and has a pH-value of 3.0 to 4.5 (EHLERS).

Utilisations

Solitary, topiary, public parks.

Additional information

Nursery

Circumference

100-150cm

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